Rome: Total War mod Total Realism 6.0 Preview

I am sure there is a way you can mod it back. 

Hmm, yeah, they gave me a head ache as the Armenians, butonlybecause they attacked soon after Pontus and the Selucids declared war on me.

They're taking a royal beating in my Maca game, and i havn;t even started on them yet.

Hmm, how much change in balencing is made in 6.1?
Maybe i'll make the patch after all and start the macas all over again.

The good thing about playing as Pontus is that the Seleucid provinces in the area tend to rebel making them vulnerable to Pontic expansion.

As for the patch, it basically adds 100 gold to every recruiting cost, but I dunno what they do to Sarmatian upkeep.

Thats not much of a balencing act, it just hands the advantage even more to the rich factions.

Questions i've been pondering...

-Some faction leaders have the option for 'forced march', in addition to the percentage movement bonus. What exactly is the forced march bit?

-What is it with those cities that just won't gto no further? The population is 22,000ish, you have a good faction member running the place, tax is on the lowest and all the upgrades have been built, but zero growth? I've had to resort to building 5 units of hoplites in the 4 nearest towns to provide the 1200 odd extra population needed to reach the biggest city status, built the palace and get to building all the other goodies.
Needless to sy this method doesn't sit well with the notion of Rome: Total realism.

-Whats the most cost effective warship? I'm not exactly shor on cash, so i can build whatever, but still, i want the most efficient navies, economicly, so that when times are hard (as will no doubt happen when i expand into less wealthy provinces, and still need to field the armies to keep them), the bulk of my expenditure is on the army. I'm anal that way.

-Is it me, or assasins even more useless than the were before the patch/realism mod? The wimpiest target has got to be a rebel army leader (sans fancy rebel family member unit), and even that is a 31% chance. You have to accept that 4 or 5 will fail before one succeds and improves its talent, only to die on you when it has a 95% chance. Needless to say, it makes them next to useless, better to buy those rival faction diplomats and send them into early retirement somewhere. Annoying.

Assasins can kill those hordes of emmisonaries that wander around your territory, once you've killed the easiest thing to kill a few times that is.

-Some faction leaders have the option for 'forced march', in addition to the percentage movement bonus. What exactly is the forced march bit?

They get a minor movement bonus. The larger is the one used, I don't think they stack. Forced March is just a Roman one, I think. Or that's Roman Marching.

-What is it with those cities that just won't gto no further? The population is 22,000ish, you have a good faction member running the place, tax is on the lowest and all the upgrades have been built, but zero growth? I've had to resort to building 5 units of hoplites in the 4 nearest towns to provide the 1200 odd extra population needed to reach the biggest city status, built the palace and get to building all the other goodies. Needless to sy this method doesn't sit well with the notion of Rome: Total realism.

Those levels are hardcoded, I think. I'm going to push for higher health bonuses from sewers and such with Achilles -- he might flex. Caius didn't.

-Whats the most cost effective warship? I'm not exactly shor on cash, so i can build whatever, but still, i want the most efficient navies, economicly, so that when times are hard (as will no doubt happen when i expand into less wealthy provinces, and still need to field the armies to keep them), the bulk of my expenditure is on the army. I'm anal that way.

Corvus Quinquireme or whatever for the Romans is the best all-around ship. Other than that, I just use Triremes. The good thing is that if you take the coastal provinces from a player (or their major overseas Empire), they'll stop building ships. So you don't really need a standing fleet like you need a standing army. Or would it be floating fleet?

-Is it me, or assasins even more useless than the were before the patch/realism mod? The wimpiest target has got to be a rebel army leader (sans fancy rebel family member unit), and even that is a 31% chance. You have to accept that 4 or 5 will fail before one succeds and improves its talent, only to die on you when it has a 95% chance. Needless to say, it makes them next to useless, better to buy those rival faction diplomats and send them into early retirement somewhere. Annoying.

Sabotage buildings, I guess? I rarely touch them.

If you've got feedback, I'd love to see it. I'm already the Public Relations person with GameFAQs, what's AE?

Those minor units that wander around are useless. Fight battles that decide the fate of Empires.

For unrest, just have decent armies in town. My typical town has 3 of the cheapest Hoplite types units, and one archer, the border towns (which tend to be further away from the capital), same 3 holites and 3 archers, plus extras (usualy any missile mercenaries or extras i have hanging around).

If you get a govenor in there with high tax rates, and the city doesn't revolt, he'll probably get some decent traits. At least, I think they do. And build lots.

Leave large armies stationed outside of your cities (to avoid the plague), and leave roughly the same size force at every fourth province or so to defend your borders. That's how I do it once I can't expand, which is very, very rare.